(a) Office shall mean the New York State Office of Children and Family Services established in the department of family assistance by ch. 436, L. 1997.

(b) Youth shall mean any person under 21 years of age.

(c) Municipality shall mean a county, or a city having a population of one million or more.

(d) Youth development program shall mean a local program designed to accomplish the broad purposes of article 19-A of the Executive Law to promote positive youth development by undertaking activities to prevent delinquency and youth crime while advancing the moral, physical, mental and social well-being of youth. Provided, however, that the term youth development program does not include approved runaway programs or transitional independent living support programs as such terms are defined in section 532-a of the Executive Law. When used in this Part, the term youth development program refers only to those programs that receive youth development funding as defined in subdivision (j) of this section.

(e) Youth bureau shall mean an agency created by a municipality, village, town, or city for the purpose of engaging in activities including, but not limited to, the planning, operation, administration or monitoring of youth development programs offered by public or private agencies serving youth throughout a particular municipality, village, town, or city.

(f) Municipal youth bureau shall mean either:

(g) Local youth bureau shall mean a youth bureau, not included within the definition of municipal youth bureau, that engages in activities including, but not limited to, the operation, administration, or monitoring of youth development programs, throughout a particular village, town, or city.

(h) Youth board shall mean the citizen board of a youth bureau.

(i) Comprehensive plan for youth development programs shall mean the plan developed by a municipality, in consultation with the applicable municipal youth bureau, to offer youth development programs in accordance with section 420(1) of the Executive Law. The comprehensive plan for youth development programs shall be subject to the approval of the office and shall be submitted to the office by each municipality at such time and for such periods as the office shall determine.

(j) Youth development funding shall mean State aid, as defined in section 412(6) of the Executive Law, to include payments by the State to a municipality for or toward the cost of the establishment, operation and/or maintenance of approved youth development programs.